Before you faint from sticker shock, bear in mind that Cine lenses featuring minimal focus breathing, no axial shift and no focus shift while zooming are extremely costly to produce. The bargain priced lenses at the end of this round-up feature geared aperture and focus rings – but don’t address focus breathing or axial shift. You get what you pay for.

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SLR Magic 25mm T1.5, 35mm T1.3, 50mm T1.2 and 75mm T1.5 fullframe E-Mount Cine MicroPrime Lenses are each available for $799. Each MicroPrime Cine lens features similar size and weight with consistent lens gear positions for rapid lens changes and easier re-balancing when changing lenses on a gimbal.

SLR Magic MicroPrime Cine 25mm T1.5 FE Lens | Price: $799
This wide-angle prime lens incorporates a 13-blade iris that provides a pleasing bokeh with natural-looking, out-of-focus highlights. The lens has an internal focus design so the front of the lens doesn’t rotate when focusing, and it has an 85mm outer diameter for compatibility with a wide number of clip-on matte boxes.

SLR Magic MicroPrime Cine 35mm T1.3 FE Lens | Price: $799
This moderate wide-angle prime lens incorporates a 13-blade iris that provides a pleasing bokeh with natural-looking, out-of-focus highlights. The lens has an internal focus design so the front of the lens doesn’t rotate when focusing, and it has an 85mm outer diameter for compatibility with a wide number of clip-on matte boxes.

SLR Magic MicroPrime Cine 50mm T1.2 FE Lens | Price: $799
This normal prime lens incorporates a 13-blade iris that provides a pleasing bokeh with natural-looking, out-of-focus highlights. The lens has an internal focus design so the front of the lens doesn’t rotate when focusing, and it has an 85mm outer diameter for compatibility with a wide number of clip-on matte boxes.

SLR Magic MicroPrime Cine 75mm T1.5 FE Lens | Price: $799
This telephoto prime lens incorporates a 13-blade iris that provides a pleasing bokeh with natural-looking, out-of-focus highlights. The lens has an internal focus design so the front of the lens doesn’t rotate when focusing, and it has an 85mm outer diameter for compatibility with a wide number of clip-on matte boxes.

Sony E-Mount AF Cine Lenses

Before jumping to manual focus cine lenses, it’s first worth taking a look at a pair of Sony E-mount AF lenses featuring Smooth Motion Optics (SMO) resulting in no axial shift and no focus shift while zooming along with minimal focus breathing:

Zeiss Compact Prime CP.2 15mm/T2.9 Lens for Sony E MountFormat: FullFrame | Price: $5700
Designed to shoot wide angles in tight spaces this rectilinear flat field lens offers extremely low distortion, minimizing it to almost non-existence and producing razor-sharpness to the very edges of a frame, even on full frame sensor cameras. The 15mm is a great tool for shooting architectural settings in confined spaces, as it accurately captures horizontal and vertical lines.

Zeiss Compact Cine Zoom Lenses

Zeiss 15-30mm CZ.2 Compact Zoom Lens for Sony E MountFormat: Fullframe | Price: $23,900
Yes, you read that correctly, TWENTY-FOUR-THOUSAND-DOLLARS! Optimized for digital cinematography, this lens supports 4K resolution and is color-matched to available Zeiss primes for seamless inter-cutting between zoom and primes. Internal mechanical adjustments built into a cine-style housing that minimize focus shift across the zoom range. Built-in lens gears on the zoom, focus and iris rings, allow use of follow focus and zoom motors (not included of course).

Zeiss 28-80mm T2.9 Compact Zoom CZ.2 Lens (E Mount)Format: Fullframe | Price: $19,900
This lens offers full-frame coverage and exhibits no focus shift over the zoom range. The cine-style housing features calibrated focus scales and industry standard gearing for focus, iris and zoom. At 7.72″ long and with a weight of 5.5 lb, the 28-80mm is relatively compact and lightweight, which makes it ideal for handheld and Steadicam applications. The lens features a built-in lens support post, with 3/8″ threading for use with available lens supports.

Zeiss 70-200mm T2.9 Compact Zoom CZ.2 Lens (E Mount)Format: Fullframe | Price: $19,900
This lens offers full-frame coverage and exhibits no focus shift over the zoom range. The cine-style housing features calibrated focus scales and industry standard gearing for focus, iris and zoom. At 9.84″ long and with a weight of 6.2 lb, the 70-200mm is relatively compact and lightweight, which makes it ideal for handheld and Steadicam applications.

Fujinon MK Cine Zoom Lenses

Fujinon MK18-55mm T2.9 E-Mount LensFormat: Super 35 | Price: $3,799
This lightweight cine-style zoom lens for E-mount cameras with a Super 35mm-sized sensor. It features a mechanical design with three independent lens control rings: focus, iris, and zoom. Each ring incorporates a cine-style gear with a 0.8 MOD for interfacing with standard cine-style lens accessories. The focus ring features approximately 200Â° of rotation, which provides room or precise focus pulls, and the iris is clickless, enabling smooth iris pulls. The lens also incorporates a macro mode for close focusing capabilities.

Fujinon MK50-135mm T2.9 E-Mount LensFormat: Super 35 | Price: $3,999
This lightweight cine-style zoom lens for E-mount cameras with a Super 35mm-sized sensor. It features a mechanical design with three independent lens control rings: focus, iris, and zoom. Each ring incorporates a cine-style gear with a 0.8 MOD for interfacing with standard cine -style lens accessories. The focus ring features approximately 200Â° of rotation, which provides room or precise focus pulls, and the iris is clickless, enabling smooth iris pulls. The lens also incorporates a macro mode for close focusing capabilities.

Schneider Xenon FF Cine Prime Lenses

Schneider Xenon FF lenses are color matched to a standard at the factory, minimizing color shift when changing lenses. Every lens in the set covers a full frame image sensor without vignetting and is designed for 4K image capture. They feature a 14-blade iris, providing natural looking Bokeh, with circular out of focus highlights, 300Â° of lens barrel rotation, and share lens gear positions and size. All lenses share the same 100mm front barrel diameter.

Schneider Xenon FF 18mm T2.4 Lens with Sony E MountFormat: Fullframe | Price: $6300
This 18mm is the widest of the Xenon FF line of lenses. The lens features a barrel with a large circumference, providing wide spacing for focus marks. Opposing focus scales provide properly oriented focus marks on both sides, so an assistant can pull focus from either side of the lens. Lens gears for focus and iris allow you to use the lens with industry standard lens accessories.

Schneider Xenon FF 25mm T2.1 Lens with Sony E MountFormat: Fullframe | Price: $5750
This 25mm wide angle lens features a barrel with a large circumference, providing wide spacing for focus marks. Opposing focus scales provide properly oriented focus marks on both sides, so an assistant can pull focus from either side of the lens. Lens gears for focus and iris allow you to use the lens with industry standard lens accessories.

Schneider Xenon FF 35mm T2.1 Lens with Sony E MountFormat: Fullframe | Price: $3995
This 35mm wide angle lens features a barrel with a large circumference, providing wide spacing for focus marks. Opposing focus scales provide properly oriented focus marks on both sides, so an assistant can pull focus from either side of the lens. Lens gears for focus and iris allow you to use the lens with industry standard lens accessories.

Schneider Xenon FF 50mm T2.1 Lens with Sony E MountFormat: Fullframe | Price: $3995
This 50mm normal lens features a barrel with a large circumference, providing wide spacing for focus marks. Opposing focus scales provide properly oriented focus marks on both sides, so an assistant can pull focus from either side of the lens. Lens gears for focus and iris allow you to use the lens with industry standard lens accessories.

Schneider Xenon FF 75mm T2.1 Lens with Sony E MountFormat: Fullframe | Price: $3995
This 75mm tele lens features a barrel with a large circumference, providing wide spacing for focus marks. Opposing focus scales provide properly oriented focus marks on both sides, so an assistant can pull focus from either side of the lens. Lens gears for focus and iris allow you to use the lens with industry standard lens accessories.

Schneider Xenon FF 100mm T2.1 Lens with Sony E MountFormat: Fullframe | Price: $3995
This 100mm tele lens features a barrel with a large circumference, providing wide spacing for focus marks. Opposing focus scales provide properly oriented focus marks on both sides, so an assistant can pull focus from either side of the lens. Lens gears for focus and iris allow you to use the lens with industry standard lens accessories. This 100mm cine lens features a removable lens support bracket, so you can use an available lens support if you wish.

Rokinon Xeen E-Mount Cine lenses

Rokinon Xeen Cine lenses are built specifically for use as a cinema lens for Sony E-mount. They feature an internal focus design so that the lens does not change size while focusing to minimize the appearance of breathing when changing focus. Each lens in the set is multi-coated for good contrast, glare prevention, and are color matched to a factory standard, allowing you to assemble a set over time with minimal color shift. They feature dual sided focus scales marked in feet, with dual sided iris scales.

The 11-bladed iris provides a rounded aperture for a natural looking highlights and Bokeh. The lens is a manual focus and iris lens, and does not have auto focus or auto iris capability. It incorporates cinema-style focus and iris gears that share the same position across the lenses in the Xeen set. The common 114mm front diameter allows for quick lens changes when using a matte box and focus accessories. The focus ring rotates 200Â° from close focus to infinity; this gives you a high degree of precision when adjusting focus.
[Please Note: Manufacturer images show PL-mount instead of E-mount]

Rokinon Xeen 20mm T1.9 Lens | Price: $2495
Manual focus wide angle premium quality cine lens has an image circle that covers a full-frame sensor. When mounted on a camera with a full-frame sensor it provides you with a wide angle of view.

Rokinon Xeen 50mm T1.5 LensFormat: Fullframe | Price: $2495
Manual focus normal angle premium quality cine lens has an image circle that covers a full-frame sensor. When mounted on a camera with a full-frame sensor it provides what is considered a normal angle of view, being neither telephoto or wide-angle.

Sigma E-Mount Cine Lenses

Sigma’s new line of E-Mount Cine Lenses based on their DSLR lenses. [Please Note: Manufacturer images show EF-mount instead of E-mount]

Sigma 18-35mm T2.0 High Speed Zoom LensFormat: Super 35 | Price: $3,999
High Speed Super 35 Zoom Line offers the constant aperture of T2 throughout the zoom range, and the optical performance is ready for high-resolution shooting such as 6K – 8K. According to Sigma, despite offering the highest image quality in its class, the High Speed Zoom Line has a compact construction.

Sigma 50-100mm T2.0 High Speed Zoom LensFormat: Super 35 | Price: $3,999
High Speed Super 35 Zoom Line offers the constant aperture of T2 throughout the zoom range, and the optical performance is ready for high-resolution shooting such as 6K – 8K. According to Sigma, despite offering the highest image quality in its class, the High Speed Zoom Line has a compact construction.

Tokina ATX Cine Lenses

Tokina has announced 35mm, 50mm, 85mm T1.5 Fullframe Cine Prime Lenses available in PL, EF, MFT and Sony E-Mount. They feature 9 blade apertures and 300 degree focus rotation and all have identical 112mm filter threads. They also have matching iris and focus positions, making it much simpler to switch lenses when using a follow focus.

Veydra Mini Prime E-Mount Lenses

Manual Focus cine lenses designed for Sony E-Mount cameras covering formats up to APS-C/Super 35. Constructed of aircraft-grade aluminum and has optical glass elements with multi-coating for color consistency with other Veydra Mini Prime lenses.

Veydra 25mm T2.2 Mini Prime Sony E-Mount LensFormat: Super 35/APS-C | Price: $949
This cine prime lens has a 300Â° barrel rotation and a constant volume focus design (internal focus) so the front of the lens doesnâ€™t change position when you change focus, providing compatibility with rod-mounted accessories such as matte boxes. It also incorporates 0.8 MOD focus and iris gears, allowing it to interface with standard lens accessories, and the bright yellow dual focus scales allows the lens to be easily read from either side.

Veydra 35mm T2.2 Mini Prime Sony E-Mount LensFormat: Super 35/APS-C | Price: $949
Features an internal focusing design, so the lens does not change its physical size when changing focus, which makes it compatible with rod-mounted accessories like matte boxes. It incorporates standard 0.8 MOD focus and iris gears, allowing it to interface with standard lens accessories. Bright yellow dual focus scales allows the lens to be easily read from either side of the lens.

Veydra 50mm T2.2 Mini Prime Sony E-Mount LensFormat: Super 35/APS-C | Price: $949
Features an internal focusing design, so the lens does not change its physical size when changing focus, which makes it compatible with rod-mounted accessories like matte boxes. It incorporates standard 0.8 MOD focus and iris gears, allowing it to interface with standard lens accessories. Bright yellow dual focus scales allows the lens to be easily read from either side of the lens.

Veydra 85mm T2.2 Mini Prime Sony E-Mount LensFormat: Super 35/APS-C | Price: $949
The length, 80mm front diameter, and gear ring positions of the 85mm lens matches that of other Veydra Mini Prime lenses, allowing you to swap between them without having to adjust the position of your follow focus or matte box. The lens also features a common T2.2 maximum T-stop as well as multi-coated elements for color consistency.

Zunow E-Mount Cine Lenses

Zunow 11-16mm f/2.8 Super Wide-Angle E-Mount Zoom LensFormat: Super 35 | Price: $3979
I know absolutely nothing about this manufacturer but I’ll include it for those who want to research a bit more. It’s a manual zoom lens for Sony E-mount cameras and camcorders with a minimum object distance for sharp focusing is 1.1 feet. It has an 82mm filter thread and the manufacturer states has adequate resolving power to support 4K resolution.

Budget-Priced E-Mount Cine Lenses

Rokinon E-Mount Cine Lenses

Not to be confused with their premium quality Xeen Primes listed above, Rokinon also offers cine-style versions of their manual focus E-mount lenses adapted to include T-stops, clickless aperture and focus gearing. Don’t expect high-end features like no focus breathing or no axial shift from budget-priced lenses, but at least they have geared aperture and focus rings.

Rokinon 100mm T3.1 Cine DS E-Mount LensFormat: Fullframe | Price: $599
This manual focus portrait-length lens provides life-size 1:1 magnification along with a minimum focusing distance of 1â€². It incorporates one high refractive index element and one extra-low dispersion element into its design to reduce chromatic aberrations and distortions throughout the focusing range. An Ultra Multi-Coating has also been applied to minimize flare and ghosting for increase contrast and neutral color.

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